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1 Timothy 1:3-7
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Instructions for Timothy in Ephesus

3 Just as I urged you when I[a] traveled to Macedonia, remain in Ephesus, so that you may instruct certain people not to teach other doctrine, 4 and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God’s plan that is by faith. 5 But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy, 6 from which some have deviated, and have turned away into fruitless discussion, 7 wanting to be teachers of the law, although they[b] do not understand either the things which they are saying or the things concerning which they are speaking confidently.

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  1. 1 Timothy 1:3 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“traveled”) which is understood as temporal
  2. 1 Timothy 1:7 Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“understand”) which is understood as concessive
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